Masters Series Roundtable with Frank Sesno and Margaret Sullivan: “The Presidential Election: Can Journalism Save Democracy?"

Week 5 | Tu | Norton Hall | Ages 14+

Chautauqua Lecture Series speakers and national media veterans Frank Sesno and Margaret Sullivan deepen their engagement with the Chautauqua community in conversation with each other followed by audience Q-and-A. This more intimate session builds on themes and takeaways from Sullivan's mainstage Amphitheater lecture and other areas of both Sesno's and Sullivan's work and interests, with an opportunity for direct engagement by audience members.

Frank Sesno and Margaret Sullivan

Sesno is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 30 years of experience reporting from around the world. Well known as bureau chief, anchor, White House Correspondent and talk show host on CNN, he is also a nationally renowned moderator who has engaged some of the world’s leading personalities, including five U.S. Presidents and numerous other influential figures. Currently, he serves as director of strategic initiatives at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, which is also headquarters to Planet Foward, a multi-platform project Sesno created to empower new voices and lead a global conversation on the planet’s future.

Margaret Sullivan is an award-winning media critic and a groundbreaking journalist who currently writes for The Guardian US and serves as executive director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia Journalism School. She began her career as a summer intern at her hometown paper, The Buffalo News, and rose through the ranks to become the newspaper paper’s first woman editor in chief. The longest-serving public editor at The New York Times, she was for six years the media columnist at The Washington Post. 

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